Facilitation Invites Curiosity ...
Facilitation makes it easier for you to access your imagination and creatively explore what may have been previously hidden from view!
Longer read ... Sometimes, when life happens, you can end up feeling stuck, confused or frustrated: somehow at odds with yourself.
Our perceptions can become our prisons and our creativity can become shackled by the scope of our own perceptions.
Then our imagination can join the party and start working against us, finding fault and questioning who we are and what we want in our lives.
It’s like creativity and imagination become a double act that sends us into cycles of boredom or loops of frustration.
On the other hand, when our creativity becomes unshackled and imagination is working for us, not against us, they can collaborate to become useful in our lives, in our work, in ourselves.
They open doorways that provide glimpses of other ways of seeing and being in the world – of new focus, new flow, new peace, new possibilities.
Together, imagination and creativity can generate the new ideas for things we want to make, for adventures we want to have, and for the life we want to live.
I run programs that use a gentle yet profoundly powerful processes to help you express, the hither to, inexpressible.
You'll hear and see your inner landscape expressed in the form of metaphors and visual language that you can interact with.
The two key methods of facilitation I use are: David Grove's Clean Language (Metaphor facilitation), and Stewart Cubley's Process Painting.
My programs are not about making lovely pictures - you can do that later if you want – but instead, the process is about learning to translate ‘your’ in the moment creative process into a visual language so you can engage with it, discover what wants to be expressed, and have those discoveries integrate into your personal or professional life.
You don’t need to be an artist or painter to engage in this facilitation, in fact sometimes it's an advantage if you are not! You just have to be curious to see what emerges and be willing to respect your potential.
Once you’ve learned the process it’s up to you how you use it. You can make art - even if you have never made any before. And you can creatively enrich any figurative art that you already make.
However, it is most powerful for going beyond what you already know ... to discover more about who, and what, you are. It's a way to explore, process your feelings and update yourself (it’s amazing for creating a path that satisfies you at a fundamental level.)
And you can go on to use this approach as a grounding process in preparation for the act of creating. (Warning - it may also profoundly influence your personal and/or professional creative work.)
Whatever you choose, if you turn up to life with your creativity and imagination working for you, not against you, your life and all you do with it, will almost certainly have a little more ease and flow.
If you'd like to start right away, you can do workshops with me in a group or ...
Here's a link for one-to-one facilitationIn summary, facilitation is:
A process that supports you in exploring and discovering new perspectives that can change the way you deal with your challenges.
An invitation into a space of profound connection with yourself. It gently gets you face-to-face with your deepest needs and values so you can create a way forward that satisfies you at a fundamental level.
A conversation that respects who you are, what you want, and does not provide judgements or opinions about what you should or shouldn’t do. It acknowledges your story, listens deeply and facilitates the emergence of new perspectives.
A partnership built on trust. We can explore obvious, less obvious, and unchartered territories of your thinking. It’s important to acknowledge yourself, honour your hopes and dreams, and walk a path that you sense is the one for you.
Not therapy. It’s about helping you explore your way of being and doing. It is not therapy in the sense that it does not focus on the past, diagnose, advise, or treat you as a patient.
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